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The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], The appearance of the Yankee Army in Front of Fredericksburg — shells Thrown into the town — supposed destination of the threatening force. (search)
ng account of the military operations in the vicinity of that city. The information was received on Sunday night that the enemy had left Warrenton, and were moving on Fredericksburg in force. The Herald says: Early Monday the streets were filled with rumors as to the character of the advance, one man, from the upper part of Stafford, saving there had passed his house three brigades, embracing cavalry, infantry, and artillery. About noon the enemy arrived on the hills in the rear of Fairmont, but kept their force out of view, being drawn up from Lawson's Hill back as far as Mr. John R. Fitzhugh's — The enemy planted four pieces of artillery in the skirt of woods on the hill at Miss Mary Scott's a commanding position. Four other pieces were understood to be on the highway in the immediate neighborhood. We had four pieces of artillery near the "White Plains" house, (Mr. S. H.Owens a,) within the corporation; but the point is not compactly built over, the woolen factory. Hesst
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
of Russia for the United States to prevent it. From the army of the Potomac--Burnside Visits Aquia Creek — the impudence of the rebels. A dispatch from Fairmont, Va., dated the 26th, says that on that day Burnside visited. Aquia Creek, It adds: Five of the enemy's batteries, commanding the river, are distinctly visiblyet be delayed until the railroad communication is in good working order. The Potomac creek bridge will be to-morrow, and trains are expected to run through to Fairmont to- morrow afternoon. It is expected the railroad will be finished to-morrow from Again Creek to the Rappahannock, opposite Fredericksburg. The bridge over direction of Col. Ingalls Chief Quartermaster of the army, and are in good condition. The camp fires of the enemy are constantly increasing within sight of Fairmont, affording indications of augmentation of the rebel forces Gen. Lee has joined Gen Longstreet and Gen. A. P. Bill and Gen. D. H. Hill and Gen. Jackson are known
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Particulars of Van-Dorn's recent victory. (search)
t meeting the propriety of issuing letters of marque will be strongly urged, and will probably be carried out. Prentices laughs at the heading "Astounding Robbery" which frequently appears in conce- tion with some fraud on the Government. He says be occasionally fees cases of astounding honesty, but rubbery no longer astounds. The steamship Kungares at New York, from Liverpool, has on freight 825 bales of cotton, and the city of Baltimore 369 bales imported from Europe. The Hagerstown (Md) Free Press, has been suppressed by order of Major General Schenck, and its editor, Mr. A. J. Boyd, sent beyond the Federal lines. Under the Congressional stamp act it cast the executors of Nicholas Longworth, the lose Cincinnati millionaire, four hundred and thirty dollars to purchase a stamp to put on his will. The Philadelphia papers record the death of the Rev. Patrick Rafferty, a Catholic priest, pastor of St. Francis Church, Fairmont, for the last forty-five years.
The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The great victory. (search)
ro' that Gen. Breckinridge advanced to Beech Grove and Hoover's Gap, twelve miles from there, on the Manchester pike. He stated that the entire rebel force now is in position from Beech Grove, through Wartrace, Gay's Gap, and Shelbyville. We give to-day, from the Wheeling Intelligencer, a very interesting account of the late rebel raid into Western Virginia. The rebels went from Morgantown to Uniontown, where they committed some depredations and returned by way of Blacksville towards Fairmont, passing within thirteen miles of Waynesburg, Pa. There was a good deal of alarm at the latter place, and the cashier of the bank there destroyed $60,000 of the bank's issue for fear of its falling into their hands. Yesterday was another day of wild speculation in Wall street. The business done was enormous, and everything was higher, the leading speculative stocks being Harlem, Pittsburg, and Erie. The Government also did a very large business. Nearly five millions were loaned to Go
The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Jones's expedition to the Northwest. (search)
sixty Yankees, and destroyed a railroad bridge at that point. From Oakland he went to Cranberry Summit, where he burned the Cheat river bridge, and then proceeded on to Morgantown, in Monongalia county. From Morgantown Col. Harman moved up to Fairmont where a junction was formed with the portion of the expedition under Gen. Jones--At the latter point they captured four hundred out of six hundred of the enemy, two hundred escaping. The fine suspension bridge across the Monongahela at FairmontFairmont was destroyed They also captured some 600 fine horses, and as many good beef cattle, and a large supply of goods of every description. In noticing this expedition, a correspondent of the New York Herald, in a recent number of that paper, says: The rebels who had taken possession of Clarksburg on Monday were reinforced on Monday night, and yesterday morning commenced moving Northward. They crossed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Mannington, fifty miles east of Wheeling, and burne
The Daily Dispatch: May 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], The movement of our forces in the Northwest. (search)
ction, on account of the superior force of the enemy guarding it. He then marched to Independence, on B. and O. R. R., captured 80 of the enemy, and burned the bridge there. We then formed a junction near Morgantown, and the command moved on to Fairmont. Here we had a little fight and captured 390 of the enemy. The "melish" of Pierpont fled, and would not assist their Northern allied. The splendid railroad bridge over the Monongahela river, one mile above Fairmont, which cost $250,000, and 1e over the Monongahela river, one mile above Fairmont, which cost $250,000, and 12 months to construct, was totally destroyed. We then struck the North western Virginia railroad at Bridgeport, Harrison county, where we caught 80 Yankees, and destroyed the trestle work over Simpson's creek. From this point we came on to Buckhannon. A number of minor bridges were also destroyed, one near New Creek. We have destroyed several engines and cars.--in fact, played the devil with the railroad.
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Winchester, July 9th. (search)
red in print. On the 9th of June he left Churchville, and with his command marched one hundred and fifty nine miles. At his approach to Romney the Yankees were seized with a panic, and fell back from every point they occupied in that region to New Creek, where they had over 3,500 men. Punching matters, and losing no time, he destroyed utterly and beyond repair two splendid iron bridges over the North and South branches of the Potomac. They were of Finks's patent, and, except the bridge at Fairmont, the best and finest by far of any on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. One was 400 feet in length, the other 533--were shutdown with artillery, and fell thirty odd feet below, presenting a wreck as never was seen. He then burnt the railroad bridges over Little Caper, over Potomac Creek, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and over Everet's Creek, near Cumberland, made two crevasses in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal that can't be filled in two months; burnt all the depots, water-tanks and station
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the "Tallahassee." (search)
— we certainly think it is — but it is "a horse of another color, " decidedly. General McClellan's letter is better suited to the acceptance of a nomination on the Baltimore than on the Chicago platform. The Northwestern Ulysses. "The Fairmont ('West Virginia') National says that Ulysses N. Arnett, delegate from that district to the Chicago Convention, reached home last Saturday, and "was immediately surrounded by all the dilapidated chivalry of Fairmont to learn his ideas respecting Fairmont to learn his ideas respecting the prospect of their second choice Jeff. Davis is their first choice) for the Presidency. We learn that he gave them the comfortable assurance that McClellan would be elected, and that the war against his two sons, their sons, and all their friends fighting for their 'rights,' would be instantly stopped; that the greatest freedom of speech will then prevail, and the martyrs now confined in 'Lincoln bastiles' will be released. Arnett, it seems, was not allowed to speak or vote in the Conventio
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
At Fairmont, Virginia, last week, Mr. John Pyles, aged seventy-two years, was married to Mrs Sarah C. Carico, aged fifty. The bride was dressed in a plain linsey frock, without hoops, cut in the most economical style, and abbreviated about a foot from the ground.
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
any interest upon the investment; yet in the future it is believed that remuneration can be secured, whilst the general commerce of Baltimore has been benefitted, and that region so specially improved. Like difficulties may embarrass the enterprise proposed, but its results in the future will justify every effort in its behalf." Mr. Garrett quotes a long extract from Governor Peirpoint's message in this connection. Governor Peirpoint was for a long time the counsel of the Company, at Fairmont, and his aid is no doubt counted upon by the Company. We need not say that a railroad which thus promises to place the whole Valley of Virginia (and through it the entire Southwest) in close and constant communication with Baltimore and the North, will receive the support of the people of the region through which it is proposed to construct it, nor that its effect would be to divert from Richmond much of the trade and traffic which our people have for years been led to expect from Southwes
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